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The history of B+S Card Service GmbH

1987
Banco de Santander S.A, Madrid, purchases Bank of America's German Visa operations. Establishment of a separate business unit in Frankfurt/Main.

1989
Foundation of B+S Visa Card Service GmbH.

1993
Change of name to B+S Card Service GmbH.

1999
Licence for acquisition of Eurocard/MasterCard.

2000
Licence for acquisition of JCB.

2003
B+S acquires licence for processing of Maestro transactions.

2005
Licence for acquisition of CUP (China Union Pay). Merger with sister company Anthros GmbH & Co. KG under the name B+S Card Service GmbH.

2006
Volume of payment transactions increases to € 30 billion.

2007
More than 30% increase in the E-Commerce sector.

2008
B+S offers payment solutions in eleven European countries.

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ICANN Registrar:
DIRECTI INTERNET SOLUTIONS PVT. LTD.
D/B/A PUBLICDOMAINREGISTRY.COM

Domain Name: LAFINCS.COM

Registrant:
    Lafin Enterprises Ltd
    Michelle Brown  (legal@lafinenterprisesltd.net)
    2 Ashby Crescent, Blackhill
    Consett
    Durham,DH8 0LF
    GB
    Tel. +44.2087113595
    Fax. +44.2087113595

Creation Date: 27-Apr-2010
Expiration Date: 27-Apr-2011

Domain servers in listed order:
    ns2.lafincs.com
    ns1.lafincs.com

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Registrar: 	DIRECTI INTERNET SOLUTIONS PVT. LTD.
 D/B/A PUBLICDOMAINREGISTRY.COM

Domain Name: IMERCHANTINTL.COM
Registrar: MONIKER

Registrant [1936719]:
        Moniker Privacy Services IMERCHANTINTL.COM@domainservice.com
        Moniker Privacy Services
        20 SW 27th Ave.
        Suite 201
        Pompano Beach
        FL
        33069
        US

Domain Name: IMERCHANTINTL.COM

Registrant:
    iMerchant International Ltd
    iMerchant International Ltd
 (legal@imerchantinternationalinc.com)
    107 Atlantic Ave
    Toronto
    Ontario,M6K 1Y2
    CANADA
    Tel. +01.4165345000

Creation Date: 18-Jun-2009
Expiration Date: 18-Jun-2011

Domain servers in listed order:
    ns1.imerchantintl.com
    ns2.imerchantintl.com

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Latest Owner: Python Communications, Inc.
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Deepak Agarwal
I am an ex Local Billing employee, the owners of www.acaiberryexclusive.com, www.acaiberry-lifecleanse.com, www.absoluteacaiberry.com and another sites with these fake diet products (colon cleanser, acai berry, resveratrol). They are operating using various companies: Viv3Labs for Europe, FMW Laboratories for US And, lately, to avoid the problems caused by the scam using Viv3Labs, they are using Trading Planet Ltd for Europe and Information Tech Systems LTd for US.
The business model is to offer a FREE SAMPLE, only charging you the postage (this is an excuse to get your credit card number) and, then, due to HIDDEN Terms and Conditions, charge people incredible amounts of money for pills, which in any retail place cost less than 6 US$ per bottle.
The owners of those sites are Deepak Argwal [Edit=corrected to Deepak Agarwal](>http://www.ccap.ph/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=106:deepak-agarwal&catid=76:hot-topic, apart from this business –contactcenter, legal-, he is running more than 2.000 Porn Sites –see DeeCash.com-), Clay Douglass (»www.linkedin.com/in/claydouglass) and Mitch Platt (»www.linkedin.com/pub/mitch-platt/4/271/878) and their plan is to scam as much possible and, then, go for another product and do the same (SCAM).
It is easy to contact them through the information who appears on the site registration of www.acaiberryexclusive.com. Now, they discovered this hole on their ability to remain hidden and are registering the new sites using a Marketing company located in the US:
ACAIBERRYEXCLUSIVE.COM - Whois Information
Registrant:
Douglass, Clay clay.douglass@viveraglobal.com
Viv3 Lab Limited
Unit 5, Mill Road Industrial Estate
Linlithgow, WL EH49 7QY
GB
Domain name: ACAIBERRYEXCLUSIVE.COM
Administrative Contact, Technical Contact:
viveraglobal, Hostmaster hostmaster@viveraglobal.com
Viv3 Lab Limited
Unit 5, Mill Road Industrial Estate
Linlithgow, WL EH49 7QY
GB
+44.08082389891
Another evidence that Local Billing is behind those companies is consulting the impressun of the web pages (for example www.absoluteacaiberry.com, »www.absoluteacaiberry.com/fronte···caiBerry) and seeing that is a Local Billing company behind them:
Impressum:
LB Pegasus Limited
29 Wordsworth Gardens
Dipton
Stanley
Co Durham
DH9 9LG
United Kingdom
+48 222 120 179
LB states for Local Billing….
And also resveratrol product site, www.winedetox.com, the impressum of the page (>http://www.winedetox.com/frontend/join/impressum/site/4347#utm_source=cx-es&utm_medium=31922&utm_term=resveratrol&utm_content=ResVmax) is the following:
Impressum:
Trading Planet LTd.
56 Thorton Close
Pelton
Chester Le Street
Co Durham
DH2 1QH
United Kingdom

Hosting for Local Billing and for the pills sites is held in the Netherlands, in a company called RedBee.
Also, they are using a company called Phytoscience, located in the same address than viv3, to make the handling and the postal distribution of the products. The manager of Phytoscience is called Chris Swanson and his email is chris@phytoscience.co.uk.
Other addresses of these scammers:
Local Billing Ltd, Pau Claris, 100, 08009 Barcelona, Spain (they are operating from here, it is an useful contact for the police)
clay.douglass@localbillinglimited.com
mitch.platt@localbillinglimited.com
claydouglass@gmail.com

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300 days ago by i_got_burnt_and_want_money_back

Another set of details - who are these people and what are their connections with all of this? BTW this is public information... available to anyone for a quid at
Companies House

Another set of details

Name & Registered Office:
LB ERIDANUS ENTERTAINMENT LIMITED
9 UNITY TERRACE
TANTOBIE
STANLEY
CO DURHAM
DH9 9TD
Company No. 06012371

You can get this information from Companies House and the details are as follows

Director 1
Kirsty Willis
9 Unity Terrace
Tantobie
Stanley
Co durham
DH9 9TD

DOB 28/10/1985

Company Secretary
Bournewood Limited
Palm Grove House PO BOX 438
Road Town
Tortola
British Virgin Islands

BMIE

Mark Colin John Quirk - Trust Manager
22 Roxwell Avenue
Chelmsford
Essex
CM1 2NR

DOB 1/11/1977

1 share held by Fermoya Ltd
1 share held by BMIE Ltd

BMIE is registered at

De Burgh House 2nd Floor
Market Road
Wickford
Essex
UK
SS12 0BB

1 Share owned by Fermoya Ltd
1 Share owned by Lenia Management Limited

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300 days ago by i_got_burnt_and_want_money_back


Looks like this maybe a scam as well >http://www.haveperfectskin.com/#utm_source=none&utm_medium=none&utm_term=none&utm_content=Perfect+Skin

HavePerfectSkin - owned by LB ERIDANUS ENTERTAINMENT LIMITED

Yip- check the small print, it has the same wording, different company.

Name & Registered Office:
LB CYBERNET ENTERTAINMENT LIMITED
19 PRINCESS AVENUE, BLACKHILL
CONSETT
DURHAM
DH8 OLG
Company No. 06038131

Company Number: 06038131 Date of Incorporation:29/12/2006
Company Name: LB CYBERNET ENTERTAINMENT LIMITED
Registered Office: 19 PRINCESS AVENUE, BLACKHILL, DURHAM, DH8 OLG

SECRETARY: BOURNEWOOD LIMITED
Appointed: 29/12/2006
Nationality: BRITISH
No. of Appointments: 327
Address: PALM GROVE HOUSE
PO BOX 438
ROAD TOWN
TORTOLA
BRITISH VIRGIN ISLANDS

DIRECTOR: PARKIN, STUART MR
Appointed: 29/12/2006
Nationality: BRITISH
No. of Appointments: 5
Address: 19 PRINCESS AVENUE
BLACKHILL
CONSETT
DURHAM
DH8 0LG

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Deepak Agarwal (deecash.com)

depak has around 8000 registered companies out of Nevada. nice scam
all calls from "Premier asia" in phillipines
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April 23, 2009 12:19 PM
Anonymous said...

These people aslo have several scam credit sites like "First Plus Platinum" and "First World Platinum". They all lie and take advantage of people. There is nothing we can do. Vantex Media Group has been scamming people for years. Eventually it will all catch up to them and the FTC will do something. The FTC is just waiting for their pockets to get fat so they can come in and take it.

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July 17, 2009 2:34 PM
Anonymous said...

depak also runs porno sites and has been buying up porn companies left and right. he runs the same scams on his porn sites, bangs cards, doesn't let members cancel, signs you up at multiple sites without consumer knowledge and consent. it is also rumoured he just bought a billing company called localbilling. Watch out! I wouldn't want to be a member or merchant of any billing company associated with this scammer / scum bag!
November 30, 2009 9:49 PM

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Groups > Scammed by Thrive > thrive scams

thrive scams
Posted: 2010-01-10 by US Slueth

this company is owned by local billing limited. Basically its not a real company. the owners are Clay Douglass, mitch Platt and Deepak Agarwal. They have been creating a huge web of fraud and theft for many years and covering their tracks under aliases, fake companies and real companies. you just gave away you money info and they will charge you using many different company names unless you close your account. Before trusting a website check out who owns the site at whois.net. Anything registered by Moniker Online Services is definitely a scam.

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I have been scammed by this company, I ordered a free sample of both Acai Berry and Life Cleanse in October 09, I received this order within 1 week, when I ordered I used a bank account in my name only, when I put the credit card details in it told me that the transaction could not go through as there was a problem with my card, so I used another card for a different account, the transaction was accepted. Today I went to my bank account to check the balance, this account is not used for anything my wages go in fortnightly and I leave it there until we buy something big, so I dont check this account regularly, and I found over $600 missing, there were about 6 different company names withdrawing random amounts from my account. THen I checked my other account, (the one that was refused as there was a problem with my card) and big surprise they had withdrawn from that account also, overall I have lost over $800 in one month, my friend also used her credit card and has lost $1500, she is a pensioner with an invalid husband. These people should be thrown in jail and the keys melted down so they never get out. It is disgusting how they prey on vulnaruble overweight people who would try anything to reduce their weight.

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Local Billing Limited Complaints - theft and fraud

Local Billing Limited

Posted: 2010-01-10 by US Slueth

theft and fraud
Complaint Rating:
Company information:
Tucano Corona
Spain
localbillinglimited.com

Here's the deal...all those websites that you all got duped into buying stuff, including porn sites, are attached to this company known as Local Billing Limited but operates under the name of Tucano Corona in Barcelona Spain. The Owners are Clay Douglass and Mitch Platt. They are conspiring with some 20 something Indian hotshot by the name of Deepak Agarwal. This guy runs hundreds of pornsites and an offshoring company. Are you putting it together now? Here's another kicker, all their websites are registered by a company called Moniker Online Services. For all of you that have had money stolen from your account let me explain how it works.

Scenario One: you buy a legitimate product from a real company. They have Local Billing do their billing and then this garbage of a company charges you for whatever under many different company names to make it look like they didn't have anything to do with it. Remember, they have your card or account number and in some cases your SS#. All those credit report websites...scams to get your personal info and pass it off onto the next fake whatever.

Scenario two: you believe there is a secret to getting white teeth or making money online or even need a payday loan. You sign up or purchase something, then the charges come from everywhere. All lead back to Local Billing.

Local Billing owns "call centers". This is a place in another country where all the calls from these supposed toll free numbers come into and you talk to charlie who has a very thick Indian accent. When you call these numbers, you will here a slight pause after the first few rings and then it rings slightly differently. That's the switch of the call being transferred to this overseas call. That's why the sound is awful. Even though the numbers may differ you are still calling to the same place. Not only that, one number might be for different companies that all sold the same thing.

Does any of this make sense? I hope so. I have filed multiple reports with the FBI at their online complaint form giving as many details as I can. I hope that anyone who has unexplained charges to their accounts will file disputes with your bank or credit card company and then file a report with the FBI. The more people that do this, the more likely these morons will be punished

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I just got an anon email - regarding Deecash and their activities...

[Originally Posted by anon email]
Below is the result of a look into Deedevelopments/Deecash and unauthorized credit card charges. I am not going to make any judgments, just going to let the facts speak for themselves.

Let's start with one from a free sample board. A person only made three purchases on their credit card - a "Super8 contest and i booked a room, and i ordered shoes from 6pm" - and they somehow ended up getting a charge from >http://www.pay-mediumhelp.com.

>http://www.freesamplesite.com/ydf/sh...d.php?t=241037

What is most notable about this thread is the whois info of pay-mediumhelp.com.

Administrative contact:
Technical contact:
Billing contact:
ImageSoft SL
Pedro
ash@deedevelopments.com
CL San Miguel N 30 - 3 L , Palma De Mallorca
Mallorca, Mallorca 2383 ES
Phone: +1.2392148290
Fax:

deedevelopments.com aka Deecash.

Here is another complaint about another mysterious charge from pay-mediumhelp.com related to a Super8 contest.

»www.forums.gottadeal.com/show...···e=linear

I got a charge on my CC for PAY-MEDIUMHELP.COM for $29.97.
I did not make this charge.
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[/Originally Posted by anon email]

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Feds investigate Naples man in money laundering probe tied to online gambling

Bank employees began getting suspicious when they saw many large checks issued by a Naples man’s company, according to an ongoing federal investigation. When questioned, customers cashing them explained the MCM Capital Management checks were payments from Internet Poker gambling winnings.

When bank tellers and managers saw millions of dollars in wire transfers going in and out of Michael Olaf Schuett’s bank accounts, many shut down accounts for the hundreds of companies he owns after discovering they were linked to gambling, federal documents say. For FedEx employees, it was the roughly 51 packages being mailed daily from his Chesapeake Avenue home that made them question what the 29-year-old was doing there.

“Federal Express employees became suspicious of Schuett’s activity when Schuett began mailing over 150 parcels per week,” says a federal complaint alleging Schuett is involved in money laundering. “FedEx employees opened several of the parcels and determined that each contained a check.”

Those are the allegations outlined in a 39-page complaint filed in U.S. District Court, Fort Myers, that shows Schuett is the target of a federal investigation.

Schuett, also known as Schütt, a German national whose visa expires in April, is being held without bond in Lee County jail after a federal judge ruled Monday he was a flight risk.

U.S. Magistrate Judge Sheri Polster Chappell cited his limited ties to this country, that he’d been married only a month to a woman he’d known for nine months, that he lives in Germany, and has no employment ties here.

“The court further takes into account the amount of money involved in the alleged crime and the number of bank accounts used to conduct the scheme,” Polster Chappell wrote in her ruling, citing 40 accounts opened at Bank of America.

In denying bond, she also pointed out Schuett was planning to purchase a house using illegal funds. “The house was going to be put in only the defendant’s new wife’s name,” she wrote.

Federal investigators seek to seize nine bank accounts Shuett holds under his name and company names: MCM Capital Management Corp.; MI Global Inc.; South Naples Escrow Co.; Southwest Florida Payroll Co.; Woodhouse Systems; Mathew’s Trade Corp; and Internet Payment Services Group Inc.

As of Feb. 12, the complaint says, there was $2.13 million left in accounts at Bank of America, Ironstone, SunTrust, Regions Bank, BB&T, Iberia Bank and Royal Bank of Canada.

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The complaint says Schuett incorporated numerous companies in Naples, Tampa and Bradenton. State incorporation records show that through USAG24, he’s the officer and registered agent for 424 businesses, but he owns others under his name.

However, the state Bureau of Financial Investigations said Schuett has never registered as a money transmitting business, which prevents money laundering. The complaint shows the amount of money involved would be a first-degree felony.

The complaint indicates Schuett became a target after many customers came to banks with large checks issued by MCM Capital Management.
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The investigation shows Schuett had opened about 40 accounts with Bank of America over the past three years and since Nov. 1, 2007, received wire transfers and transferred about $70 million to 23,000 persons, mostly in the United States.

“As a result, numerous banking institutions throughout the state of Florida have closed accounts associated with Schuett,” the complaint says.

In addition to the bank accounts being frozen, he also had accounts with Wachovia, Shamrock, CNL, Fifth Third and Northern Trust Bank of Miami.

The complaint gives this account:

Overseas wire transfers of money went into accounts operated by Schuett, who then obtained large numbers of cashier’s checks, wrote business checks, and sent wire transfers to customers in the United States or Canada. Large amounts of money came from Bluetool Ltd., a British company, and International Payment Systems, a German company.

When one bank official asked Schuett if he was involved in gambling businesses, he denied it.

Between Nov. 24 and Jan. 21, $2 million was transferred in and out of accounts operated by Schuett at Bank of Florida, Bank of Florida Southwest, and Bank of America. Most of it originated from Bluetool Ltd. through a German bank.

Between Aug. 13 and Dec. 1, Bluetool made 28 wire transfers totaling $7.3 million to bank accounts owned by Schuett’s companies.
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Shares of Wirecard , a provider of electronic-payment technologies, fell 16% to 6.30 euros a share in afternoon trading on Xetra. They earlier hit an intraday low of 5.07 euros.

Prosecutors in Munich have received a complaint against Wirecard Bank AG citing suspicion of money laundering, a spokesperson for Chief Prosecutor Barbara Stockinger told the Web site GoMoPa.net.

Wirecard Bank, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Wirecard, is a web-based financial-services provider for business and individual customers.

Documents provided by the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation show that Wirecard Bank transferred $5.7 million last year on behalf of English real-estate firm Bluetool Ltd. to Florida to real-estate agent Michael Olaf Schuett, who was living there at the time, according to GoMoPa.net.

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Thanks so much MGD, I plan to study your posts in more depth.

I noticed that 800notes has oodles of complaints about unauthorized credit card charges that began about the same time as mine: July 25th. Actually I caught the charge still pending but most people are just now seeing it on their statements.

Examine this thread with 15 pages of complaints, different number, different amount but similar in ways (I think many of lafincs.com adult sites had a Texas connection too) Lots of complaints about this number: 8007689144

Given the federal estimate that only 80-85% of consumers even dispute a small unauthorized charge with their bank, this could be a tsunami of fraud.

reply to MGD
I just saw the same cn860.net photo with the smiling customer reps on a Facebook ad! I didn't click on it of course, but did report it to Facebook.

It wasn't clear what they were advertising, I think they hoped the picture of a cute woman on the phone would reap some clicks. Lafincs.com had the same pic at first but took it down and replaced it with a keyboard pic.

BTW, I also see that people reported being ripped off for $39.71 as early as 2009 by cn860.net. mrsl and muhpop were a couple other related frauds with lots of complaints.

I plan to study all your research when I have more time. I wish I understood computers better but always did like a puzzle. I'll have quite a case prepared for the OCC if Bank of America denies my dispute claim. If I can add anything to my FBI complaint I will.

If I'm seeing this ad on my Facebook page are they targeting previous victims of their schemes? Is FB even safe any more?

I just saw a different Facebook ad with a business graph and just the words: "Billing Issues?" I think those same words were under the cn860.net photo.

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